Improvement in buggy-top fastening



Pennsylvania, 4have invented @tina emi 4])Al\II:[ i I Sf. EARLY., 'OFHUMME'LSTOWN,

Letters Patent No.' 83,269, dated October- 20, 1868. I

`I`1vnbnovnMnNrIN BUGGY-Top IAsrnivmci.

The Schedule referred :n.these LetterLPatent and making part of thesame.

To all whom'it lmel/ 1] concern Be it known that L'DANIEL S. VEARLY, ofHummelstown, in the county of Dauphin, and State of a new and improvedBuggy-Top Fastening; and Ido herebydeclarethat the following is a, full,clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of thesame, reference being had to the'accompanying drawings, making a part ofthis specication, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of the seat andfastening. Figure 2 is a side view of the seat, showing an end. view ofthe fastening. l

Figure 3 is a vertical section through the line a: a: of iig. 2. f

The object of this invention is to provide a simple and cheap device`for securely fastening the top of a buggy to the seat, and so operating,that, by simply throwing down or up a hinge-joint in the fasteningrod,it will instantaneously lock the top to the seat, or loose littherefrom. Inthe drawings, Arepresents the body ofthe carriageseat B,the lower part of the frame -of the buggytop, and O G theiron-braces'and standards attached to the part B, and resting upon theseat A, when the top'is in position, being provided with hooks, c c,which engage under aplate, e, attached to the side of the seat, and holdthe forward ends of the parts O C in connection with the seat. The rearportion of the parts O C is connected to the rear upper edge of the seatby means of two pins, pp, projecting downward from the parts G C, whichenter eyes in a curved plate or lug, D, projecting upward and backwardfrom the rear edge ofthe seat.

v Invconnection with on the standard C. The ends of the rod are forked,

and when'the joint is pressed down by handy ytill the rod isstraightened, as shown in iig.' l, the forks m' lm' embrace the edges ofthe lugs D D, and prevent the parts B andG, and the top 4connected tothem, from being detached from the seat. But by simply throwingup thejoint mf, the forks are withdrawn fromthe lu'gs, and. by lifting theback, B, till the pins p p 'are disengaged from the lugs, and thenpushing the top forward till the hooks c `c are disengaged from theplates c, the parts B and C are disconnected from the seat, and can beat once removed. The whole opera? tion of locking or unlocking the topand seat is but the work of an insta-nt, being performed simply bydepressing 4o1' raising the joint m. -When locked, no

amount of vibration, and no rude shock to the carriage, can unlock thedevice.

. Having. thus described my invention,

Wliat'I claim'as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The jointed bars M, in combination with thevarm n n and sockets o o,as-and for the purpose described,

To the above speciiication of my improvement, I

havesigned my hand, this 10th day of August, 1868.

j DANIEL lS. EARLY Witnesses:

ABNER HUMMEL, v GEORGE Znrrnn.

